Fruit And Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipes

Cream cheese coffee cake is a breakfast classic. This recipe for fruit-filled cream cheese coffee cake includes four layers of deliciousness – cake, cream cheese, fruit and crumble topping. Serve it warm from the oven for the best start to your morning!

I told my husband I was making coffee cake and he legit made a pot of coffee and asked me how much I needed for the recipe. Nope, that’s now how this works…

Coffee. This fruit-filled cream cheese coffee cake doesn’t actually have coffee in the recipe. You might have also heard this kind of recipe called a “buckle”. Or a crumb cake? Maybe even streusel? Any way you call it, it’s delicious!

Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

You might have had cream cheese coffee cake for breakfast. Or for a brunch, afternoon snack or dessert. This kind of dish was always served at my grandma’s friend’s house. The old ladies would sit around after church on Sunday, sipping coffee. And I’d try to figure how to finagle another slice of cake! My dad would also buy cream cheese coffee cake in a box from the grocery store as a weekend treat. This homemade version is waaaay better, so keep reading tips on how to make it yourself.

For these images, I made my fruit-filled cream cheese coffee cake with boysenberry preserve. Yes, you can use other kinds of fruit preserves. I used raspberry jam for the cream cheese coffee cake I prepared in the video. I adore boysenberries, so I always keep boysenberry preserves on hand. And can we all just admit it: Knott’s Berry Farm propagated the boysenberry and they

You could switch out for any kind of preserve you wish – blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, mango chutney, fig, orange marmalade. It’s all good and could easily work for this recipe. Just make sure you choose a seedless variety.

Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

What I LOVE about this cream cheese coffee cake recipe is that it’s really 4 different layers. Four flavors that meld together in the oven and combine into one delicious breakfast cake. Yes, breakfast cake. That’s definitely a thing in my house. Or call it dessert, whatever!

I’m going to tell you a secret to make this recipe even easier. Don’t bother cleaning out the bowl or cleaning off the mixing paddle in between making the layers. Just scrape off as much as you can using a spatula then use the bowl to make the next layer.

As I’ve explained in this Tart & Sweet Cranberry Cake Bar recipe, you can’t beat the butter, eggs and sugar too much. You want this mixture to be light and fluffy. Once you add the flour and milk, you’ll be mixing as little as possible. This will ensure a light and moist cake when you don’t over mix the batter. The batter is going to be pretty thick so spoon it into the greased 9 x 13 baking dish. Then use a butter knife or spatula to pat and carefully spread out into all the corners.

Fruit Filled Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe

In the recipe the cream cheese mixture is prepared first and set aside. It’s thin and easy to pour, then spread it over the top of the batter in the pan. The cream cheese will melt down into the cake batter during baking, creating a noticeable cream cheese taste that’s not overpowering.

As previously mentioned, use whatever seedless jam or fruit preserves flavor that you wish. Dollop spoonfuls of fruit directly onto the cream cheese, making sure to evenly cover the entire pan. Then use the tip of a knife to carefully swirl the fruit in with the cream cheese. Use care not to push the knife deeply, this is just to swirl the cream cheese and fruit, avoiding the batter layer underneath. You’ll want to hit all the corners to ensure that every bite will have fruit. I show how it’s done in the video.

Lastly, the crumb topping layer. I tossed these ingredients back into my mixing bowl, but you could use a pastry cutter instead if you wanted. This combination of flour, brown sugar and cinnamon is combined with cold butter into a crumble. I simply slice off small pieces of butter, then mix with dry ingredients until they are in course crumbs. You don’t want to mix too long or the butter will become soft and your crumbs will get mushy. Carefully sprinkle topping evenly across the top of the cake, using your hand to smooth out the crumbs. Now it’s finally ready to bake!

Berry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe

Because I’m a little extra when it comes to my baked goods, I just couldn’t resist adding a powdered sugar drizzle to the top of a few pieces of my boysenberry cream cheese coffee cake after it was baked. Combine about 3/4 cup of confectioner’s sugar with a teaspoon of milk, then drizzle over the top of slightly cooled pieces of cake.

This cream cheese coffee cake is best served warm. Let it cool for about 15 minutes before serving. You’ll be rewarded with moist, warm cake and soft fruit preserves that melt in your mouth! Leftovers can be covered and should be eaten within a few days for maximum freshness.Never underestimate the powers of a good coffee cake. This Triple Berry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake satisfies in all the ways: it warms your heart, tickles your taste buds and fills your belly. Each bite contains fresh berries, cheesecake filling and an exceedingly thick crumb topping. Serve with a cup of hot coffee or tea for the ultimate coffee cake experience.

I am putting to rest all of my past experiences with coffee cakes — the kind you buy at the store where the dough is spongy (and not in a good way), the cream cheese filling is thin and bland and the icing drizzle on top is pretty, sure, but cloyingly sweet… and the whole thing just isn’t very satisfying.

Lemon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake With A Crumble Topping

While I admit, yes, I loved these cakes for weekend breakfasts of my youth, I am (and my taste buds are) older and wiser and enlightened to the idea of what a coffee cake really should be — and it should always and forever henceforth be just like this Triple Cream Cheese Coffee Cake. And I’ll tell you why.

Here is precisely why I love this coffee cake recipe: The cake itself is hefty, but not dense. It’s delicately flavored with vanilla and holds up its toppings, including a ribbon of perfectly sweet cream cheese filling, fresh berries and a thick and dreamy crumb topping. One slice will actually fill you up and keep you that way for hours. That’s why I love this coffee cake.

I also love it because it comes together with ease: Just make the filling, the cake batter and the streusel topping (all of which have very similar ingredients, so no need to go out and purchase one gazillion ingredients here), layer them in a pan with a sprinkle of berries in the middle, then bake it all together for about an hour. Let the cake cool, then slice and serve. Hey! We’ve just made the best coffee cake of our lives!

Fresh Stawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Now that we’ve covered the basics on why we need to make this coffee cake, let me share a few tips for achieving full coffee cake baking bliss:

1. Yes, of course you can substitute the berries. Use all blueberries, or all raspberries, or add in some strawberries. I haven’t baked this before with frozen berries, but I am fairly confident they would work well in this recipe, too (frozen, not thawed).

2. I know this is annoying if you don’t already have one, but I highly recommend using an 8-inch springform pan for this recipe. You can use a 9-inch pan, but the cake just won’t have the same height and thickness of layers as it would in a smaller pan. If you do decide to bake it in a 9-inch pan, be sure to adjust the bake time (aka bake for less time).

Ultimate Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe

3. Spray your hands with cooking spray before you press the cake batter into the bottom of the pan. The batter is fairly thick (to hold up the toppings) but it will spread easily with patience. As for the cake batter that goes on top of the berries, place it on in small dollops and gently spread it with a spoon or your fingers as best as you can — but don’t stress if it doesn’t cover the top in an even layer.

4. Use a sharp serrated knife and cut the cake in a gentle sawing motion when slicing — otherwise, the crumb topping will be hard to cut through and will push into the cake when you cut into it.

Friends, if this Monday has you feeling a little, well, like it’s a Monday, I suggest you give this coffee cake a try. It’s the next best thing to coffee itself, of course, to perk you up.

Triple Berry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe